Re: Do you care if user changes the SystemFont?

FROM : Stephan Burlot
DATE : Mon Dec 20 22:23:19 2004

No, the "User" just changed the system fonts (with TinkerTool, I
suppose) but didnt change the point size. The line height changed, so
text did overflow.

Is there a standard program/Prefs Item, given with MacOSX, allows the
user to change the font used of windows?

Thanks,
Stephan

Le 20 déc. 04, à 16:51, M. Uli Kusterer a écrit :

> At 15:35 Uhr +0100 20.12.2004, Stephan Burlot wrote:

>> I've carefully designed my windows in IB, and a user complains that
>> the text displayed doesn't fit. It appears he has changed the default
>> fonts used by the system.

>
>  Depends on what they actually changed. If they changed the
> systemFontOfSize:, that's not supported by the OS, so it would be
> nonsense to make your app cope with that (after all, if he picked
> Times 24 white and complained that it's always cut off and barely
> visible on striped grey backgrounds, there'd be no way for you to make
> that look decent without looking like crap on all un-hacked setups).
>
>  OTOH, if you're using another standard font that the OS lets you
> customize (or the Finder font, or whatever), then it's a supported
> thing, and your app should account for this possibility. Same if the
> user just turned on anti-aliasing or whatever and that somehow made
> the font a pixel wider than you originally expected.
>
>  So, if it's the former, tell them it's their fault, and it's not your
> problem to fix. If it's the latter, you better quickly fix your app
> before others discover the problem, too, and decide your app is
> probably buggy in more important places, too, and decide not to buy
> it.
> --
> Cheers,
> M. Uli Kusterer